[PATCH 1/3] binman: Allow to define custom arguments

[Simon Glass]

Hi Jan,

On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 12:09, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com> wrote:
>
> On 15.06.23 12:55, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Jan,
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 11:26, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 12.06.23 23:17, Simon Glass wrote:
> >>> Hi Jan,
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 15:39, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> Introduce BINMAN_EXTRA_ARGS that can be set per board, e.g., to inject
> >>>> specific settings. Will be used by IOT2050 first to define multiple
> >>>> of-lists.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> CC: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  Makefile | 1 +
> >>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>>
> >>> I'm really not keen on this, since it means that the Makefile (or some
> >>> vars it sets) are again involved in controlling the image generation.
> >>> It should really all be in the binman image description / .dtsi file
> >>
> >> binman does not allow me to unrole of-list inside the dts file, does it?
> >> With such a feature, I wouldn't need any custom -a of-list-X switches
> >> and, thus, no such EXTRA_ARGS.
> >
> > Can you explain a bit more about what you mean by 'unrole'? It is just
> > software, so anything should be possible.
>
> To use a DT sequence, I need to specify fit,ftd-list. But I can say
>
> fit,ftd-list = "first.dtb second.dtb"
>
> I rather need to go via the EntryArg indirection of the binman command line.

Do you mean you would rather not use '-a CONFIG_OF_LIST'. Or are you
wanting to filter that list based on something else?

I'm afraid I am really not following this at all.

Regards,
Simon